Mitzi Perdue's opinion: Secrets of success from entrepreneurs

5:46 PM,
Feb. 13, 2014

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Mitzi Perdue

By a surprising coincidence, the two most important men in my life each created companies that started with three men and ended as international behemoths that both employed more than 20,000 people. These men were my father, Ernest Henderson, co-founder of the Sheraton Hotel Chain, and my husband, Frank Perdue, who grew his father's hatching egg business into a multi-billion dollar company which sells poultry and grain in more than 100 different countries.

It's always something of a shock to me to remember that both men, even though they became immensely visible public figures, were ...